skip to content

Bulletin Archive

This archived information is dated to the 2008-09 academic year only and may no longer be current.

For currently applicable policies and information, see the current Stanford Bulletin.

Environmental Earth System Science Introductory Courses

In this section:

EESS 39N. The Carbon Cycle: Reducing Your Impact

EESS 46N. Exploring the Critical Interface between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough

Up one level:

Stanford Introductory Seminars (IDS, ISF, ISS) Courses

EESS 39N. The Carbon Cycle: Reducing Your Impact

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Changes in the long- and short-term carbon cycle and global climate through the burning of fossil fuels since the Industrial Revolution. How people can shrink their carbon footprints. Long-term sources and sinks of carbon and how they are controlled by tectonics and short-term sources and sinks and the interaction between the biosphere and ocean. How people can shrink their carbon footprints. Held at the Stanford Community Farm. GER: DB-NatSci

3 units, Spr (Chamberlain, P)

EESS 46N. Exploring the Critical Interface between the Land and Monterey Bay: Elkhorn Slough

(F,Sem) Stanford Introductory Seminar. Preference to freshmen. Field trips to sites in the Elkhorn Slough, a small agriculturally impacted estuary that opens into Monterey Bay, a model ecosystem for understanding the complexity of estuaries, and one of California's last remaining coastal wetlands. Readings include Jane Caffrey's Changes in a California Estuary: A Profile of Elkhorn Slough. Basics of biogeochemistry, microbiology, oceanography, ecology, pollution, and environmental management.

3 units, Spr (Francis, C)

© Stanford University - Office of the Registrar. Archive of the Stanford Bulletin 2008-09. Terms of Use | Copyright Complaints